Lou Adler (journalist)

Louis Charles Adler (April 18, 1929 – December 22, 2017) was an American radio journalist, director of Quinnipiac University's Ed McMahon Mass Communication Center, and also was Quinnipiac's Fred Friendly-endowed Professor of Broadcast Journalism.[1]

Adler was born in Jamestown, New York. A longtime morning news anchor on WCBS in New York, Adler was credited with popularizing the "talk news radio" format on WCBS during the late 1960s. From 1969 to 1980, Adler also served as WCBS' general manager and/or news director, (sometimes concurrently.) After his retirement, he became owner of WKFD, an AM radio station in Wickford, Rhode Island. He died on December 22, 2017 in Meriden, Connecticut at the age of 88 from Alzheimer's disease.[2]

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  1. "Wallingford resident greets Charles Osgood". Record-Journal. October 15, 2007. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  2. Caron, Christina (24 December 2017). "Lou Adler, a Fixture of New York Radio News, Dies at 88" – via NYTimes.com.

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